Sentence examples for major fleet from inspiring English sources

It long ago eclipsed the Sun as the major Fleet Streeet agenda-setter.

And major fleet companies like USPS, FedEx, and UPS are experimenting with alternative-fuel vehicles, from electrics and hybrids to trucks running on propane, natural gas, or biomethane.

The financial problems at Conrad Black's Hollinger empire then gave them the opportunity to take a tilt at a major Fleet Street asset.

Among the bright spots in the energy sector, Noble, the owner of a major fleet of offshore drilling rigs, gained 2.5 percent to $30 after announcing it would buy Frontier Drilling, a privately held company in Norway, for $2.16 billion.

A combination of both planning and chance resulted in the two fleets converging at the Battle of Jutland (May 31 June 1 , 1916, the only major fleet action of World War I.

The makeover also includes plans for a major fleet upgrade — Qantas announced it would buy as many as 110 new Airbus A320 aircraft — as well as plans to fly to Santiago, Chile, and curtail services to London.

Most of the 17 major fleets - which control about 1,700, or about 15percentt of the medallion cabs - are based in Long Island City and other locations in Queens and Brooklyn.

More than half the city's taxi drivers operate under a leasing arrangement with major fleets or companies with two or three cabs.

But the discount ships are older and less luxurious than the new liners joining the major fleets, so Mr. Russo, for one, does not think the discount cruisers represent much of a threat.

Dozens of F.A.A. inspectors have told me that they no longer have enough money to conduct inspections at repair stations in China, Singapore, El Salvador, the Philippines and Mexico and other distant locations at which major fleets of American-based airlines undergo maintenance.

Her construction sparked off a naval arms race, and soon all major fleets were adding Dreadnought-like ships.